Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: Date: 15 Jun 91 16:27:31 GMT References: <1991Jun14.214105.1414@ncsu.edu> <1991Jun15.025015.13046@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun15.064926.27796@ncsu.edu><1991Jun15.092250.28773@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 39 rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > I think CD-I is going to have a run for its money. CDTV is out, possibly >8 months before CD-I will hit the market in force. By the time >CD-I does hit the market CDTV will have a substantial consumer base. >I don't think the interactive video market is a unary market, there is >room for more than 1 standard. I wouldn't be surprised if C= adds >CD-I compatibility in the future. Plus with Personal Computers getting DV-I, you won't see many IBMers buying either system. And the fact that a CDTV player will be avaiable for the Amiga 500 will really give more promise to the software companies looking to develop for either system. We all know alot of A500 owners are game mongers. And I bet Commodore has stats as large as a phone book to back this assumption up. Why else would they have come out with this in the first place?! > >> - kevin > >BTW, I am dissapointed that neither CDTV nor CD-I live up to their >promised features. As you stated kevin, CD-I still doesn't sport >real-time 30fps full-screen animation. From the article I have in my hand now, this is true. Here's a direct quote: "The first home-use players are expected from Magnavox and Philips this fall. Full-motion video, it is understood, to be added at a later date." Going on in the article, it says that NEC and Sony are developing systems of their OWN(not CD-I) that should be out in two years. Then it will be a decision of who has more software avaiable, and whats cheaper. And can you see the video mongers get a hold of this for genlocking? You could buy a CD with a million different fonts on it! -- C-UseNet V0.42e Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.